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Karsten Johansson

If I had a child (No, Scarlet is not my daughter. In fact, there are at least 4 people right now on the planet with my name), and my condo had 12 steps to the upper floor (most do) I would wire each step to play a successive note for each step. At the top, and the bottom, there would be a screen that tells them what scale they just played (including alternative names... there are many in some cases)

Then I'd teach the child to walk the scales by skipping steps for "whole steps". The fun begins when they've learned the modes and we move onto Harmonic Minor modes with the really big step.

Fun way to learn scales up and down. No? Or is this abuse? I think kids would learn modes quickly this way.

#musician#musicians#musictheory
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Karsten Johansson

If I had a child, and my condo had 12 steps to the upper floor (most do) I would wire each step to play a successive note for each step. At the top, and the bottom, there would be a screen that tells them what scale they just played (including alternative names... there are many in some cases)

Then I'd teach the child to walk the scales by skipping steps for "whole steps". The fun begins when they've learned the modes and we move onto Harmonic Minor modes with the really big step.

Fun way to learn scales up and down. No? Or is this abuse? I think kids would learn modes quickly this way.

#musician#musicians#musictheory
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Paul Chambers🚧

Turning Schools Into Factory Training Centers: The dumbing down of Ohio colleges

Is dumbing down colleges something Ohioans want for someone who might ask to be their next governor? Jim Tressel is justifying reducing standards to help fill jobs, but what's his priority, education or corporate interest?

#Ohio #education cleveland.com/news/2025/05/tur

cleveland · Turning Schools Into Factory Training Centers: The dumbing down of Ohio collegesBy Today in Ohio
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Journeys In Film

These free teaching resources include engaging meditation activities that students love. They're a great way to introduce students to world religions, Buddhism, and global education while teaching valuable emotional regulation skills.

These are also great resources for Meditation Month and Mental Health Awareness Month in May.

religionmatters.org/2024/05/10

2/2 #Education #Edutooters #SocialStudies #GlobalEducation #Homeschooling #MeditationMonth #Meditation #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #MentalHealth @education @edutooters

Religion Matters · Introducing Students to Buddhism Through Film and Experiential LearningGuest Post: Journeys in Film Film offers an immersive and emotionally-engaging way to give students productive encounters with world religions, thereby building empathy and understanding. In the ca…
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Scott Campbell

"On May 5th, seven students from California State University, Long Beach, launched a hunger strike as part of an organized protest across four CSU campuses: San Francisco, Sacramento, and San Jose State. In total, twenty-five students are striking for Gaza. They join a wave of nationwide protests demanding an immediate end to the United States’ arming and facilitating a genocide in Gaza by Israel."

mondoweiss.net/2025/05/califor

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #California #USpol #education #academia

Cal State Long Beach students are stating their demands on their Instagram account. Source: Instagram account @SJPatCSULB
Mondoweiss · California State University, Long Beach students go on hunger strike for GazaTwenty-five students across four California State University campuses have launched hunger strikes in solidarity with Palestine. They join a nationwide wave of protests demanding an immediate end to U.S. support for the genocide in Gaza.
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Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:

"Last year, Patrick promised to take away academic freedom and turn Texas public universities into indoctrination camps or vocational schools. SB37 requires political appointees to review degree programs and decide if they provide a 'return on investment.'

Texas higher education could face a massive brain drain as the nation’s top minds seek greater academic freedom and intellectual rigor elsewhere."

🎁: houstonchronicle.com/business/

#education#colleges#universities
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Sunguramy :nb_lily:

I really liked this tactile exhibit at Mammoth Cave National Park. It shows cave life to scale with a penny, and the models are really well done in 3D. The penny was sized to make the critter model display well, so even the tiny amphipod is tactically interesting even though the penny is mega-oversized (pennies are also in 3D for tactile pleasure).

Cave Crayfish, specifically the Orconectes pellucidus. The eyeless crayfish grows to more than four inches long. It has no pigmentation in its....and the stupid preview makes it I cannot see the rest of the text to put it here. It is a predator and will eat invertebrates in cave pools and streams. Above this text is a 3D model of the crayfish, with a real size penny for scale underneath it. The structure is accurate, and is visually and tactally pleasing.
Northern Cavefish, Amblyopsis spelea. This is the larger of the two cave fish that occur at Mammoth, and it can grow to five inches long, live up to 60 years and even go two years without eating. The scale model above the penny shows more the average size, not the max 5 inches. There's a lack of eyes and it has fluffy looking fins.
Cave Amphipod, specifically the species Stygobromus vitreus. They are tiny and eyeless crustaceans well adapted to cave life. The penny is very oversized, but still 3D. On it is the amphipod, which takes up about the size of Lincoln's body and that's it! Super leggy and segmented wee thing
Kentucky Cave Shrimp, Palaeomonias ganteri. Food is scarce in the cave's underground waters. In the perpetual darkness, natural selection favored increased sensitivity in taste and touch and discouraged eye development in animals like this cave shrimp. They graze on bacterial films in the streams and on tiny organisms in sediments. The scale model shows an enlarged penny (but not quite as big as with the amphipod) and the shrimp with its huge long antenae are around the edges of it. The shrimp is about the size of the penny, but the antenae are even longer than it is in body!
#cave#life#nature
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Journeys In Film

Asmaa Rashed, a young Syrian refugee mother raised in a society where girls were denied access to education, is determined to raise her own daughter and the next generation as conscious, confident, and resilient women. By leading reading-aloud circles, she uses literacy as a pathway to empower girls from Zaatari refugee camp. Learn more about Asmaa in The Neighborhood Storyteller.

journeysinfilm.org/product/the

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Journeys in FilmThe Neighborhood Storyteller | Journeys in FilmFree educational resources to use with The Neighborhood Storyteller, global education through film, powerful classroom tools
#MothersDay#Parenting#Families
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Yogthos

US universities face a deepening fiscal crisis as Chinese student enrollment plummets as families in China increasingly favor domestic or other international universities.

Efforts to offset this by recruiting students from India and Nigeria are failing. Enrollments from these countries have also sharply declined. This overall drop in international students severely impacts university finances.

kdwalmsley.substack.com/p/us-u

Inside China / Business · US universities are recruiting Indian and Nigerian students to replace Chinese. It's not working.By Kevin Walmsley
#usa#economy#education
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